The American philosopher Robert Nozick (born 1938) established his reputation as a polemical advocate of radical libertarianism, a position arguing for maximum individual rights and a minimal government. He went on to investigate classical issues in...

Robert Nozick, who spent most of his career at Harvard University, did original work in metaphysics, epistemology, and decision theory and was interested in topics such as animal rights and Eastern philosophy and religion. But he became one of the most...

Nozick, Robert(1938–2002) Robert Nozick was born in Brooklyn, New York, graduated from Columbia University in 1959, and received a PhD from Princeton University in 1963. After stints at Princeton University and the Rockefeller University, Nozick...

Robert Nozick (1938–2002), along with John Rawls, did more than anyone else to re-create and revive political theory in the Western post-war world. Like Rawls he based his approach on liberalism and a trenchant defence of inalienable rights which...

US philosopher of the NEW RIGHT famous for his notion of the ‘minimal state’. He was educated at Columbia College and Princeton University. He has taught at Princeton from 1962 to 1965 and been a full professor of philosophy at Harvard...

Robert Nozick (November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher and Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. Nozick, schooled at Columbia, Oxford and Princeton, was a prominent American political philosopher in...